quinoa is rich in nutrients and can be matched with a variety of foods. i have made a simple and nutritious quinoa salad with quinoa with fruit, yogurt and home-made cow milk tofu. this salad is good for all ages, tastes and nutrition, and a bowl of such salad comes in the morning, and i have energy. quinoa (pronunciation of lí) wheat, originating in the andes of south america, is the main traditional food of the inca indigenous population, with a history of consumption and cultivation for over 5,000 to 7,000 years, given its uniquely rich and comprehensive nutritional value. the inca people were raised, and the ancient incas called them “mothers of food”. quinoa seed colours are mainly white, black, red and so forth, with little difference in nutrient composition, with the best white taste, relatively different black, red and smaller seed. quinoa was used by nasa in the 1980s for astronaut space food. the food and agriculture organization of the united nations (fao), which considers quinoa to be the only food for which the basic nutritional needs of the human body can be met by a single plant, formally recommends quinoa as the perfect whole nutritious food most suitable for humans. the united nations will proclaim 2013 the international year of quinoa to promote human nutritional health and food security and achieve the millennium development goals. one of the nutritional characteristics of quinoa is its very high embryonic and nutritional activity, which many grains do not have. nutritional activity is the freshness of seed embryos, emulsions and skin tissues, the ability to develop, the persistence of enzymes in seeds and the state of the freshest nutrients。